Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine joined his presidential campaign rally in Jinja on Monday, after being cleared to run in the January 2026 election.

Footage shows crowds of supporters cheering and dancing while Wine waved national flag from a car, as motorcade brought him to the event.

The campaign follows the Electoral Commission’s reversal of an earlier rejection over paperwork issues, which Wine’s party had denounced as ‘politically biased’.

Bobi Wine, 43, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, a pop star turned politician. He is widely seen as the main challenger to long-serving President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986.

The opposition leader ran in the 2021 presidential election but rejected the results, accusing the authorities of ‘rigging’ the vote and ‘undermining’ the will of the people – a claim strongly denied by electoral officials.

Wine’s platform emphasises youth empowerment, economic reform, and political change in Uganda, appealing especially to a new generation that has grown up under Museveni’s decades-long rule.